CVE-2003-1072 describes a memory leak vulnerability in the lofiadm utility within Solaris 8 and SunOS. This flaw allows a local attacker to trigger a denial of service by consuming kernel memory. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a low severity, as it requires local access and only results in a partial denial of service. There is no known active exploitation, nor is there publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB. Despite its age and low severity, the CVE has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, primarily on GitHub, suggesting some level of historical interest or tracking.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:8.0:*:x86:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.